“One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.”

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.